• Netscape Composer Icons: Examine the icons and the possible choices in the toolbars.

Instructions for Creating a Sample Page

Netscape Composer Icons

• First row
• New document
• Open an existing file
• Save
• Publish to the server
• Preview with the browser
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Print
• Find
• Link
• Target
• Image
• Horizontal line
• Table
• Spell Checker
• Second row
• Window with "Normal"=text type (title, sub-title, list, etc.)
• Window where you can choose the font
• Window where you can chose the color of the font
• Bold
• Italics
• Underline
• Bulleted list
• Numbered list
• Reduce indent
• Increase indent
• Justification

• Open Netscape Communicator
• Choose FILE, NEW, BLANK PAGE.
• To give a title to the sample page: Choose FORMAT, puis PAGE COLORS AND PROPERTIES and enter the title Sample Web Page.
• To change the colors, click on FORMAT, PAGE COLORS AND PROPERTIES, COLORS AND BACKGROUND and choose other colors for LINK TEXT, FOLLOWED LINKS and BACKGROUND. Click OK.
• To create a title, click on the arrow next to the Normal window and choose HEADING 1. Enter Sample Web Page Title.
• Hit ENTER and check that NORMAL has reappeared in the window.  (If not click on NORMAL) Type at least two paragraphs, hitting ENTER after each.
• You can prepare a text with accents by using a word processing software and cutting and pasting into the editor.
• If you have a French keyboard, you can use it for the accents.
• For some letters, you can use enter accented characters with their ASCII codes.  To do this, press ALT and enter the code which you can find in your computer manual, using the numeric keypad (for example, é = ALT+130).
• To create a sub-title, click on the arrow and choose HEADING 2. Enter Sample Page Sub-Title. Hit ENTER and check that NORMAL reappears in the window.  (If not, click on NORMAL.)
• Type Here is a list of my favorite links.  Hit ENTER.
• To create a list, click on the icon for a bulleted list.  A bullet will appear.  Since this will be a list of links, click on the LINK icon.  (The editor will ask you to save the file if you have not already done so, and you can name it whatever you like and save it to diskette or to the hard drive.)  In the dialogue box which appears ENTER TEXT TO DISPLAY FOR NEW LINK asks you to type the text which will appear underlined or in color for the link.  We will put AATF Homepage.  Next enter the URL in the window LINK TO A PAGE LOCATION OR LOCATION FILE, and we will put  http://aatf.utsa.edu/ (You can also copy and paste a URL from a bookmark list, for example.  You can use the  CHOOSE FILE to select a file on diskette, and in the lower window, you will find a list of internal links on that page.  Finally you can put  Netscape Communicator and Composer windows side by side and drag the URL by clicking on the little icon to the left of the LOCATION window.). Click on  OK. After each element in the list, hit ENTER.
• Repeat the procedure for the following links (the bullet will appear to indicate that it's a list):
• The Paris Pages: http://www.paris.org/
• List of Web servers in France: http://www.urec.fr/
• Here I will put an internal link to another section of this same page.  #internal
• Hit ENTER after the last element, then click on the LIST icon to end the list.  (You can also type the list first, select the entire list, and then click on the LIST icon.)
• We are going to put a horizontal bar here by clicking on the icon.  Hit ENTER.
• Type I can also make a list of things you can find on the Web. Hit ENTER.
• Repeat the same sequence but this time clicking on the numbered list icon and enter the following elements:
• French media--newspapers, radio broadcasts, TV programs, movie listings, video excerpts
• maps and illustrations
• works of art with the Mona Lisa in bold
• literary texts
• So that Mona Lisa appears in bold, highlight the two words with the mouse, then click on the BOLD icon (or click on  FORMAT, STYLE, BOLD).
• Replace the cursor at the end of the list and type If I want to include an image, I could put it here.
• To insert an image, click on the IMAGE icon and enter the URL in the IMAGE LOCATION window. (You can also include text which will appear when the image is not accessible.  Likewise, you can also choose a file on diskette.)  Check that the box marked LEAVE IMAGE AT ORIGINAL LOCATION is checked.  (If you are not on line, you will not see the image.)  If you are including images that you find on the Web, you should not save them without permission; rather make a link.  If the image is large, you can alter its size by returning to the IMAGE dialogue box.  We are going to enlarge the image.  Click on the IMAGE icon and double the dimensions of the image.  Click  on OK.
• We can make the image a link which will return us to the first page of this site. Highlight the image and click on the LINK icon.  Under LINK SOURCE, type  ./begin.html and click on OK.
• We can include a recorded sound message here.  You simply link to any sound file as you would link to a URL or an image.  Click here to learn how to record your own sound file with Windows Sound Recorder.  We will include our own Welcome message.  Type Click to hear Welcome Message.  Highlight Welcome Message, and click on the LINK icon.  Choose or enter the file named welcome.wav.  Click OK.
• We are going to put another horizontal bar here by clicking on the BAR icon.  Hit ENTER.
• Here we are going to make a glossary of some acronyms that are found on the Web with their definitions.  Type the following text, putting each acronym and each definition on a separate line: URL, Uniform Resource Locator, WWW, World Wide Web, HTML, Hypertext Mark-Up Language. Choose each acronym and click in the NORMAL window on NORMAL on DESCRIPTION TITLE.  Choose each defintion and click on DESCRIPTION TEXT.  You can also highlight each capital letter and underline it by clickon on FORMAT, STYLE, UNDERLINE.
• Now we are going to create an internal link called "internal." Begin by creating a sub-title using HEADING 3 and typing Sub-title Internal Link. Then type a paragraph of text.  Highlight the sub-title and the text with the mouse and click on the TARGET icon.  Put  internal in the dialogue box which appears.
• To create a table of Francophone countries, click on the TABLE icon.  Specify a 2x4 cell table to include 8 countries.  Under  TABLE ALIGNMENT, click to center the table. Click on the box INCLUDE CAPTION, BELOW TABLE.  Click OK. Type French-Speaking Countries as the title.  Then, click on each cell and enter France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Senegal, Morocco, Togo, Tahiti.
• You can put links in the cells.  With the mouse, highlight "France," then click on the LINK icon.  In the LINK TO window, enter http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/ to create a link to the page of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
• Replace the cursor at the end of the table and type  Now, of course,  I will put the necessary information to contact me as well as the dates of creation and last update. Hit ENTER.
• Click on the LINK icon and for LINK SOURCE enter your name, for LINK TO, enter mailto: followed by your e-mail address.  Click OK.  Hit ENTER.
• Enter the date created and date last modified, each time hitting ENTER.
• Return to the beginning of the document. Highlight the title.  Click on the JUSTIFICATION icon to center it.
• Finally, we will make the title blink and change its color.  The title should still be highlighted.  Click on FORMAT, STYLE, BLINKING. (The title will not blink in the browser.) Then click on COLOR and select a color.  Click OK.
• Save the file by clicking on the SAVE icon or by clicking on FILE, then SAVE AS.
• Click on the PREVIEW icon to view the sample page.  It should resemble this one.

• To record a sound file, you need to attach a microphone to the microphone jack on your computer monitor or speaker.
• Click on START, PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, ENTERTAINMENT (OR MULTIMEDIA), SOUND RECORDER. A window appear with buttons representing the typical functions of a recorder.  (Depending on your computer, you can record for approximately one minute.)
• For our sample Web set, record the message Welcome to this sample Web site. Click the red RECORD button to begin.  Click the STOP button when you are finished.  Click on FILE, SAVE AS, and save the file as welcome.wav.  The file will automatically be saved with a .wav extension.   Return to the Netscape Composer.

Créé: le 10 novembre 1998

Dernière modification: le 25 mai 2000

Dr. Jayne Abrate, Southern Illinois University